A scuffle broke out between Uttar Pradesh Police and Congress leaders as the partys delegation, led by Ajay Rai, was prevented from visiting violence-hit Sambhal.

Police barricades outside Congress office and leader residences in Sambhal; Congress plans to visit despite government ban.

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A Congress delegation led by the party's Uttar Pradesh chief Ajay Rai is scheduled to visit Sambhal, where a stone-pelting incident took place on November 24.

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Scores of Congress workers raised slogans and jostled with police personnel outside the party's office in Lucknow on Monday as they were prevented from going towards violence-hit Sambhal. Police had o

Police have erected barricades outside the Uttar Pradesh Congress committee office and the residences of several party leaders who were to accompany the unit's chief Ajay Rai on a fact-finding visit to violence-hit Sambhal,

Congress workers were stopped by police from visiting Sambhal, where violence broke out over a disputed mosque site. Four people died in the clashes. The Uttar Pradesh government's extension of a ban on outsider entry until December 10 has been criticized by Congress.

On November 24, four people died in alleged police firing after a mob protested violently against a court-ordered survey of a local mosque.